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Reunion of 7 very rare post-incunabula printed in Antwerp (2 not listed in public collections), in a nice panel-stamped binding. In-8° (small marginal dampstains, wormholes not affecting the text in the 1st work, good condition). Contemporary Flemish (Antwerp) binding : calf, boards with a panel-stamp figuring the portrait of Charles V with the caption "Plus oultre // Karolus.V.Imp." and decorated with columns and foliotation on both sides, panels encircled with blind fillets, ribbed spine with blind fillets (bound upside down, small wears, rebacked but hardly visible, re-used vellum on the pastedowns, Latin ms. note in the upper flyleaf).
(1). GNAPHEUS, Wilhelm.- Acolastus. De filio prodigo comoedia Acolasti titulo inscripta. Apud Martinum Caesarem, impensis Guilhelmi Vorstermanni, 1535 Mense martii, [36] lvs. Celebrated school drama (1st ed. : 1529) on the prodigal son in the general framework and conventions of Roman comedy (Terence and Plautus). Gnapheus (1493-1568), originally rector of the Latin school in The Hague is considered as one of the most pure representative of the early Dutch more or less protestant humanists and Neo-Latin writers. Title in architectonical border with Vostermann's mark in the lower part and text illustrated with small ornemental initials (1 dotted). # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3105 (2 copies : ours and one in the UL Ghent); # Machiels G-358; # Andrew Pettegree & Malcolm Walsby, Netherlandish books. Leiden & Boston, Brill, 2011, n° 13410; # not in Adams, USTC, Soltész. (2). PLACENTIUS, Joannes Leo.- Susanna. Eusebii candidi elegia, in vana[m] brevemq[ue], humanitate vitae gloriolam. Ite[m] Ode sapphica eiusde[m] Eusebii, in mortis recordationem. Item Plausus luctificae mortis ad modu[m] dialogi, exte[m]poraliter ab eodem Eusebio lusus. (Per me Guilielmum Vorstermannum), 1536, [20] lvs. Third edition (1st ed. : 1532) of this early biblical play by the Dominican from Sint-Truiden (1500-1548 ?). Followed by poems of "Eusebius Candidus", probably Placentius himself. Title in ornemental border; dotted initials. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3736 (lists our copy and one incomplete in London B.M.); # USTC 403951; # Pettegree & Walsby 25660 # not in Soltész, Adams, Machiels. (3). CROCUS, Cornelius.- Comoedia sacra, cui titulus Joseph, ad christianae iuventutis institutionem iuxta locos inventionis [...]. In aedibus Joan. Steelsii (typis Joan. Graphei), 1537, [32] lvs. Second edition (1st ed. : 1536) of this play for use in Latin schools, the most important and best known of its author, relating the victory gained by Charles V in Tunisia over the Turks and the attempts of the Egyptian princess to seduce the Emperor. Crocus (1500 ?-1550), rector of the Amsterdam Gymnasium, is one of the first and most important Neo-Latin poets and humanists of the Northern Netherlands. Erasmus praised his brilliant and pure Latin. Mark of Steelsius on the back of last leaf. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg (OMITTING OUR COPY); # USTC 403965; # Pettegree & Walsby 9134; # not in Soltész, Adams, Machiels (other ed.). (4). PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius.- Aulularia Plautina, comoediarum lepidissima [...]. Apud Michaëlem Hillenium, 1531, xliii-[1] lvs (tear in lf. XVIII without lack). EXTREMELY RARE EDITION (1st Antwerp ed. : 1514) given by Martinus Dorpius of Plautus' best-known play. The 5th act was completed by the Italian humanist Urco Codro. Title in an ornemental border with the mark of Hillen van Hoochstraten in the lower part; text decorated with some dotted initials. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3740 (MENTIONS ONLY OUR COPY); # USTC 441716 (NO KNOWN SURVIVING COPY); # not in Adams, Machiels, Soltész. (5). LUCIANUS Samosatensis.- Dialogi aliquot, per D. Erasmum versi, ac à Nicolo Buscoducensi, succinctis pariter & eruditis scholiis explanati, recens per eundem diligenter recogniti [...]. (Apud Michaelem Hillenium, 1533. Mense augusto). 27 [i.e. 26]-[2] lvs. RARE EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION BY ERASMUS edited with additions of Nicolas Van Broeckhoven of the satirical dialogues of Lucianus. Erasmus worked on the translation of the dialogues with Thomas More in the first years of the 16th century. The first edition of the translation was published in 1506, the Erasmus' in 1517. Text decorated with a few ornemental initials; printer's mark on the back of last leaf. # Nijhoff & Kronenberg 3745; # USCT 419293; # Adams L-1628; # Bibliotheca Erasmiana 475; # Pettegree & Walsby 19707; # not in Soltész nor in Machiels. (6). SCHOTTENIUS, Hermann.- Vita honesta, sive Virtutis : quomodo quisque vivere debeat, omni aetate, omni tempore, & quolibet loco, erga deum & homines. Cui novissime adiecimus instut